Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grocery store windows were tattered signs: SOLD OUT. Two days before, butchers had hung up their bloody aprons to go home for the weekend. They did not return to take them down. If they had, there would have been no meat for them to chop. Milk and bread wagons made infrequent deliveries. A private family in San Francisco stood a good chance of going hungry if it had not laid in plenty of supplies. Once in a while a doctor's car went by, with its card authorizing its owner to buy gas at a few "accredited" depots. Visitors...
...GREAT MASS OF THE PUBLIC, who came back with the following report to the Duce: 'To Signor Pietro Savio. 72 years of age, born in Turin, ex-contractor, unable to work because of advanced age, now living at 25 Via Calabria, there has been communicated that the bread at 1.30 per kilo was bought by the Duce from the bakery of Antonio Menichini, at No. 78 Via Alessandria...
...There has also been presented to Savio a sample of the bread in question and there have also been indicated to him three other places near his home where he can buy his bread at the amount stated...
...believe that a series of major and greater satisfactions could not have touched Mr. Savio: he has been able to find that, first, his letter reached the Duce and was read by him; second, that bread is really sold at 1.30 lire per kilo; and third, that Mussolini-and this is said for the benefit of all the doubting thomases, great or small-makes no statements, especially on subjects such as these, that he does not personally rigidly verify...
...Gray puts his lead patients on a diet low in calcium, high in phosphorus. They avoid milk, most important source of calcium, and eat quantities of phosphorous-rich eggs, whole wheat bread, lamp chops, liver, green peas, pineapple juice, baked potatoes, halibut. The deleading must not go on too rapidly, said Dr. Gray, otherwise the lead may be disastrously shifted into the central nervous system...